Mr. Cavendish, I Presume

Mr. Cavendish, I Presume
Author: Julia Quinn
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061982148

Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting . . . for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all . . . It's true. He doesn't. Thomas rather likes having a fiancée—all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay—and he does intend to marry her . . . eventually. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas's world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. And if Thomas is not the duke, then he's not engaged to Amelia. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love . . . with his own fiancée!

Nemesis

Nemesis
Author: Brendan Reichs
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 039954495X

Orphan Black meets Lord of the Flies in this riveting new thriller from the co-author of the Virals series. It's been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, a strange man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later, she wakes up in a clearing just outside her tiny Idaho hometown—alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the horrifying crime erased. Across the valley, Noah just wants to be like everyone else. But he’s not. Nightmares of murder and death plague him, though he does his best to hide the signs. But when the world around him begins to spiral toward panic and destruction, Noah discovers that people have been lying to him his whole life. Everything changes in an eye blink. For the planet has a bigger problem. The Anvil, an enormous asteroid threatening all life on Earth, leaves little room for two troubled teens. Yet on her sixteenth birthday, as she cowers in her bedroom, hoping not to die for the fifth time, Min has had enough. She vows to discover what is happening in Fire Lake and uncovers a lifetime of lies: a vast conspiracy involving the sixty-four students of her sophomore class, one that may be even more sinister than the murders.

The Emperor's Children

The Emperor's Children
Author: Claire Messud
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2007-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030727666X

A bestselling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite—an “It” girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist—and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius, a cash-strapped freelance critic. The delicious complications that arise among them become dangerous when Murray’s nephew, Frederick “Bootie” Tubb, an idealistic college dropout determined to make his mark, comes to town. As the skies darken, it is Bootie’s unexpected decisions—and their stunning, heartbreaking outcome—that will change each of their lives forever. A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—of innocence and experience, seduction and self-invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise—The Emperor’s Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment. A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year

Sleepless in Manhattan

Sleepless in Manhattan
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459294084

A NYC events planner gets her big break—with the only guy to break her heart—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s “satisfying, sizzling romance” (All About Romance). Cool, calm, and competent, events planner Paige Walker loves a challenge. After a childhood spent in and out of hospitals, she’s now determined to prove herself—and where better to take the world by storm than Manhattan? But when Paige loses the job she loves, she must face her biggest challenge of all—striking out on her own. Except launching her own events company is nothing compared to hiding her outrageous crush on Jake Romano—her brother’s best friend, New York’s most in-demand date, and the only man to break her heart. When Jake offers Paige’s fledgling company a big opportunity, their still-sizzling chemistry starts giving her sleepless nights. But can she convince the man who trusts no one to take a chance on forever? Sleepless in Manhattan is the first novel in Sarah Morgan’s From Manhattan with Love trilogy.

Duet

Duet
Author: Eden Winters
Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781626220942

A heartbroken Highlander, a Druid's whispered spell, the promise of a future. A conqueror's decree couldn't separate Aillil Callaghan from his Scottish pride. He wears his clan's forbidden plaid as a badge of honor, living for the day he can restore his family name and overthrow English tyranny.Fleeing England and persecution, violinist Malcolm Byerly accepts a post in the Highlands as tutor for the sons of Laird Callaghan. He never expects the kilt-wearing force of nature, the Laird's eldest son, Aillil, or the man's bitter hatred of all things English, including Malcolm. He doesn't expect their shared love of music to overcome the barriers between them. Or for their love to be short-lived.Distraught and alone, Aillil grasps for a second chance at love, and vanishes into Highland legend to await the rebirth of his lover. Concert violinist Billy Byerly's arrival at Callaghan Castle feels like coming home, and the gift of an antique violin awakens memories of another time and place. Billy doesn't believe in ghosts, but a dark-haired Highlander haunts his dreams and the antique violin releases tunes he doesn't remember learning. But the Lost Laird knows his own.

Dirty Little Secrets – Verführt

Dirty Little Secrets – Verführt
Author: Stacey Kennedy
Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732562123

Eine Begegnung, die ihr Leben für immer verändern wird. Allie Parker hat hart für ihren Erfolg in der Immobilienbranche gearbeitet. Als sie erfährt, dass das Unternehmen, in dem sie arbeitet, von Multimilliardär Micah Holt aufgekauft wird, gilt ihr erster Gedanke ihrem Job. Sie ahnt noch nicht, dass diese berufliche Veränderung auch ihr Privatleben auf den Kopf stellen wird. Denn es ist unmöglich für Allie, der starken Anziehungskraft des attraktiven Immobilienmoguls zu widerstehen. Doch Micah hat ein dunkles Geheimnis. Und je mehr Allie sich auf die gefährlichen Spiele ihres neuen Chefs einlässt, desto schwieriger wird es für sie, sich seinem Bann zu entziehen. Bis sie sich irgendwann entscheiden muss: Wie weit wird sie für die Liebe gehen? Der erste Band der neuen sinnlichen Reihe der USA-Today-Bestsellerautorin Stacey Kennedy. eBooks von beHEARTBEAT - Herzklopfen garantiert. "Fantastischer Auftakt zu einer heißen neuen Reihe! Stacey Kennedy heizt ein und macht, dass wir mehr wollen. Die Story ist vielschichtig, mit einem verführerischen Helden, einer smarten Heldin, und Geheimnissen, die dazu verleiten, immer weiterlesen zu wollen." Meredith Wild, New-York-Times- und Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin

Chrysalis

Chrysalis
Author: Brendan Reichs
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0525517073

Now in paperback, the stunning finale of the Project Nemesis trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Brendan Reichs. The 64 members of Fire Lake's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program--and each other. Now, they alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era on Earth, into a Fire Lake valley that's full of otherworldly dangers and challenges. Although staying alive in this broken world should force Min, Noah, Tack, and the others to form new alliances, old feuds die hard, and the brutality of the earlier Program phases cannot be forgotten. But being a team isn't easy for the sophomores, and when they discover that they may not be alone on the planet after all, they'll have to decide if they're going to work together . . . or die together.

A New Approach to the History of Violence

A New Approach to the History of Violence
Author: Francisca Loetz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004297272

On the basis of the example of sexualized violence in Zurich between 1500 and 1850, the study criticizes the reduction of violence to illegitimate physical harm and discusses how a history of interpersonal violence in pre-modern Europe could be further developed.

Exhibiting the Nazi Past

Exhibiting the Nazi Past
Author: Chloe Paver
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319770845

This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Over recent decades, German and Austrian exhibition-makers have engaged in significant programmes of object collection, often in collaboration with witnesses and descendants. At the same time, exhibition-makers have come to recognise the degree to which the National Socialist era was experienced materially, through the loss, acquisition, imposition, destruction, and re-purposing of objects. In the decades after 1945, encounters with material culture from the Nazi past continued, both within the family and in the public sphere. In analysing how these material engagements are explored in the museum, the book not only illuminates a key aspect of German and Austrian cultural memory but contributes to wider debates about relationships between the human and object worlds.

Politics of Visibility

Politics of Visibility
Author: Gerdien Jonker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

"This book takes into view a large variety of Muslim actors who, in recent years, made their entry into the European public sphere. Without excluding the phenomenon of terrorists, it maps the whole field of Muslim visibility. The nine contributions present unpublished ethnographic materials that have been collected between 2003 and 2005. They track down the available space that is open to Muslims in EU member states claiming a visibility of their own. The volume collects male and female, secular and religious, radical and pietistic voices of sometimes very young people. They all speak about "being a Muslim in Europe" and the meaning of "real Islam"."--BOOK JACKET.